Workshop on Indian Code-mixed and Low-resource Natural Language Processing

15th - 19th December 2022, IIIT Delhi

The majority of the recent advancement in AI and related fields involve English as the primary language. Despite having the global footprint of the English speaking population, a significant number of people are not comfortable with it, especially in a developing country like India. Even with the combined efforts of government, industry, and academia, the research in regional languages (e.g., Hindi, Bengali, etc.) and their code-mixed variants (e.g., Hinglish, Bengalish, etc.) are yet to excel. A prime reason is the insufficient resources to motivate young and to-be researchers to explore the research in low-resource languages. Therefore, with the proposed workshop on Indian Code-mixed and Low-resource Natural Language Processing (aka. ICLrNLP), we aim to provide a platform to the young researchers to showcase their research skills for the growth of AI-based technologies in these linguistic setups. The theme of the workshop would span across the complete spectrum of NLP research -- classical NLP tasks, generative models, conversational dialogue, representation learning, cross-linguality, multi-linguality, multimodality, etc. We also plan to organize a three days long tutorial and laboratory sessions for the skill development, conduct shared tasks on real world problems, and invite the eminent experts from academia and industry for the keynotes and invited talks.

It is being organized by the Laboratory for Computational Social Systems (LCS2), iHuB Anubhuti IIITD Foundation and the Department of CSE, IIIT Delhi

SPEAKERS

DAY 1

-- VIRTUAL --

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Soumen Chakrabarti
IIT Bombay

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Preslav Nakov
Qatar Computing Research Institute

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Fabio Caccioli
Professor, University College London

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Vassilis Plachouras
Facebook

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Ingmar Weber
Qatar Computing Research Institute

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Robert West
Assistant Professor, EPFL

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Partha Talukdar
Google, IISc Banglore


DAY 2

-- PHYSICAL --

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Manish Gupta
Director, Google Research India

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Srikanta Bedathur
Associate Professor, IIT Delhi

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Lyric Jain
CEO, Logically

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Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran
Walmart Global Labs

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Suyash Sangwan
TCS Research

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Saibal Kumar Pal
DRDO

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Vidhya Thyagarajan
Intel Corporation

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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Members of LCS2

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Members of LCS2

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Members of LCS2

AGENDA

Day 1 (Virtual)

Inauguration

Ranjan Bose IIIT Delhi

Speaker

Soumen ChakrabartiIIT Bombay

Speaker

Fabio CaccioliUniversity College London

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Robert WestEPFL

BREAK

Speaker

Partha TalukdarGoogle, IISC Bangalore

Speaker

Ingmar WeberQatar Computing Research Institute

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Vassilis PlachourasFacebook

Speaker

Preslav NakovQatar Computing Research Institute

Day 2 (On Campus)

Registration

Inaugration

Organising TeamLCS2

Keynote

Manish GuptaGoogle

Speaker

Mukesh MalhotraTIH

Speaker

Saibal Kumar PalDRDO

Student Speaker

Dhruv Shanan & Vasu GoelLCS2

Student Speaker

Shivani KumarLCS2

BREAK

Speaker

Suyash SangwanTCS Research

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Srikanta BedathurIIT Delhi

Speaker

Lyric JainLogically

LUNCH

Speaker

Vijay Srinivas AgneeswaranWalmart Labs

Student Speaker

Yash KumarLCS2

Student Speaker

Sarah MasudLCS2

Speaker

Vidhya ThyagarajanIntel

Student Paper Competition

Conclusion & Prize Distribution